Any Quote by Dermot Healy

“Nobody but a reader becomes a writer.”

— Richard Peck

It's interesting when you're doing signing sessions with other writers and you look at the queues at each table and you can see definite…

— Martin Amis

“The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in progress. For…

— Robert Stone

“Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein”

— Mark Rubinstein

From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not simply to…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“I don't see the use of reading the same thing over and over again,' said Phillip. 'That's only a laborious form of idleness.' But…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…

— Betsy Lerner

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

— David Almond

“If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.”

— Mark Rubinstein

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

— Jasper Fforde

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare

“I was thinking the other day about the idea that you have a reader and a writer, and they’re different and they’re flawed and…

— George Saunders